Batch Geonews: Stamen Map Stack, 1,000 New Street View, Protest Maptivism, D3.js Geo, 270TB of Bird’s Eye, and much more
Fri, 2013/06/14 – 08:31 — Satri
Here’s the recent geonews in batch mode.
From the open source / open data front:
- Here’s an excellent and funny presentation of Leaflet: Past, Present and Future
- GitHub just added mapping capabilities: any GeoJSON file hosted on GitHub can be mapped with MapBox Streets
- Mapnik 2.2.0 has been released
- Here’s CLAVIN (Cartographic Location And Vicinity INdexer) is an open source software package for document geotagging and geoparsing that employs context-based geographic entity resolution (via O’Reilly Radar)
- A new book available, The QGIS Training Manual, by Rüdiger Thiede, Tim Sutton, Horst Düster, and Marcelle Sutton
- Here comes QGIS Enterprise, it’s QGIS Desktop + Server + Web Client along with support and maintenance contract
- Yes, in QGIS 2.0 we’ll get data-defined symbol properties, and here’s on the new QGIS 2.0 APIs
- Mapbender has been resurrected into Mapbender3: “the back office software and client framework for spatial data infrastructures”
- Something new, GeoThink.ca – Canadian Geospatial and Open Data Think Tank
- Here’s some nice javascript examples dealing with projections and other geostuff, mostly from D3.js, some are pretty impressive
- Here’s all OpenGeo presentations videos from FOSS4G-NA 2013, and why not, here’s the GeoServer presentation from GeoSolutions
- About the same time, OpenGeo also launched MapMeter, a monitoring tool for spatial deployments such as GeoServer
- From the gvSIG blog, I learned about available Emergency mapping symbology
From the Esri front:
- An entry named From ArcMap to ArcGIS Online: well-prepared geographic information for the web
- Here’s the OGC summary of what happened with the GeoServices REST API standard submitted by Esri
- There’s now ArcGIS Online admin tools available on GitHub
- News that Esri looks to link CAD Software to ArcGIS Online
From the Google front:
- Google announced today nothing less than 1,000 new Street View locations to Google Maps
- Road traffic information is important to Google, Google To Buy Waze For $1.3 Billion and the official Google announcement
- There was a Google ocean bathymetry update earlier this week
- Wonder what Google Glasses looks like inside? Via Make, here’s What’s Inside Google Glass
- That’s a topic we mentioned before, recently discussed over Slashdot, How Google Street View Keeps an Eye on Things Where There Are No Streets
- A book’s voyage recreated in Google Earth: “Sailing Alone Around the World” in Google Earth
- I tried the new Google Maps interface, and I admit, this is an excellent improvement
In the miscellaneous category:
- Via APB, the well known Stamen Design launched their Map Stack that makes designing maps free, easy and fun
- APB links to an article named The Revolution Will Be Live-Mapped: A Brief History of Protest Maptivism
- In case you missed it, Landsat 8 data is available for download since May 30th
- Earlier this week, Microsoft announced 270 terabytes of new Bird’s Eye imagery
- Geoff mentions that the Time required to create 3D city models dropping rapidly, now less than a week for a textured 3D model of a whole city
- Google Glass will have competition, Atheer Offers a Wearable Display That’s Glasses, Not Glass, but it’s clearly not as sexy or wearable
- In Apple’s iOS new ‘Today’ feature, there’s Traffic Information on Frequently Visited Locations
- A quick one on 3D printing, “Anti-Gravity” 3D Printer Sculpts Shapes On Any Surface
- A generic article on drones / UAVs gathering location-based science data easier and cheaper than ever
- And now those drones can be accurately guided by thoughts
- Frank at VerySpatial offers a long entry on the geography of cars
- The same site made me aware of the course on Teaching World Music with Geospatial Technology
In the maps category:
- Here’s 5 Maps That Show How Divided America Really Is: median income, poverty line, inequality, food stamps, and diplomas
- Here’s a Map of All American Rivers
- Funny name, WWF’s ArkGIS: mapping the changing Arctic landscape
- Here’s bedmap2, an ice and bedrock map Antarctica
